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"The Capture of Bassein 1739". Manuscript of article concerning the capture of the Portuguese fortress of Bassein by the Marathas. Manuscript has author's name as H.G. Rawlinson at its end and at head of article H.G.R. has been annotated. Typed, 6 pages, undated.

Offprint of 'The Cataloging of Arabic Books' by Tibbetts from Vol XXIX, no.2 of The Library Quarterly, 1959.

"The Centenary of John Frederick Baddeley" by W.E.D. Allen, reprinted from The Geographicsl Journal, Vol. CXX, Part 4, December 1954. Five copies of a review of Baddeley's life. Uncovered printed material within a makeshift folder composed from an old envelope.

"The Centenary of Sir Richard F. Burton" by N. M. Penzer. Offprint from Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1921. pp 304-307

The Chinese Particle tzeng by Angus Graham - article draft.

The Chinese particle tzeng by Angus Graham was published in Early China no.3 (1977). The material consists of drafts for the article and correspondence with David Keightley concerning it.

The Chronology of Xunzi's Works by John H. Knoblock, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami. Copy of article published in Early China 8, pp.29-52.

A proof volume of what seems to be a partial version of G.M.H. Playfair's, The Cities and Towns of China . The front cover and spine have been lost and the back cover is loose. The text covers from p.253-417, No to Zimerick, with subsequent Appendices of Synoptical Table of the Administrative Cities of China, Radical Index and Corrigenda. The text is printed on one side - the blank pages being written to supplement the text and with further annotations on the printed pages.
The front endpaper has a Royal Asiatic Society bookplate with the text "Presented to the Library by Lionel Handley Derry, Esq., 2 June 1952, in Memory of Lionel Charles Hopkins, Esq., I.S.O.".
The work is undated but Playfair's first edition of the work was published in 1879 and his second in 1910.

Magazine exceprt, The story of the Mongolian civilisation from Il Milione, 9 April 1969

Letter from Michael Loewe to Angus Graham to ask for a copy of Graham's article, The Classical Chinese topic-marker FU to be published in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. (Article published in BSOAS 35/1, 1973)